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The record of J.D. Vance, the looming Project 2025 , and Trump revenge, which fosters Heritage Foundation and Evangelical homophobia, yields the perfect storm – a symbiotic convergence of draconian ideals and agenda that will send all LGBTQI+ rights into the sewers!

Lucy Middleton, writing for CONTEXT ask: What is Trump running mate J.D. Vance’s stance on LGBTQ+ rights?  THIS-  Its very clear where this is headed-  for LGBTQI+ people.

LGBTQ+ rights groups have slammed U.S. vice presidential candidate Vance, highlighting his legislative record and past comments:

• Donald Trump’s VP pick has history of anti-LGBTQ+ policies
• Vance opposed gender-affirming care, reproductive rights
• Trump-Vance win could be ‘abysmal’, LGBTQ+ groups say

LONDON – Donald Trump’s decision to name J.D. Vance as his running mate for November’s U.S. election has been criticized by LGBTQ+ advocacy groups, who say the Ohio senator has a history of working against the progression of gay and transgender rights.

Vance, a best-selling author who was elected to the Senate in 2022, was announced as the Republican Party’s nominee for vice president on Monday.

The decision was swiftly condemned by American rights groups, who highlighted anti-LGBTQ+ policies introduced and supported by Vance, as well as comments he has made against the community.

Here’s everything you need to know.

What is Vance’s political record on LGBTQ+ rights?
Last year, Vance introduced the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, which sought to ban gender-affirming care, including the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy, for minors.

The bill, which was not taken up in committee, would have also made providing such care an offence punishable by up to 15 years in prison, and prevent schools from “providing instruction” on such services.

Vance also unsuccessfully introduced the Passport Sanity Act the same year, which sought to prohibit the use of non-binary markers, such as an ‘X’ instead of an ‘F’ or ‘M’, in U.S. passport documents.

“There are only two genders – passports issued by the United States government should recognise that simple fact,” Vance said in a statement at the time.

Before becoming a senator, Vance said he would vote against the Respect for Marriage Act, which would protect marriage equality for same-sex couples.

He has also voiced support for banning abortion and has voted against the right to IVF, a medical procedure to help people have a baby, which is often used by same-sex couples wanting to become parents.

What has he said about LGBT issues?
Vance has been accused of perpetuating harmful rhetoric against the LGBTQ+ community in interviews and on social media, where he shared his opposition to children learning about LGBTQ+ issues.

During an interview on Fox News in 2022, he used the word “groomer” to describe those supporting gender-affirming care for minors, and referred to trans issues as “crazy gender theory”.

“I’ll stop calling people “groomers” when they stop freaking out about bills that prevent the sexualization of my children,” Vance wrote on Twitter at the time.

The senator also spoke out against laws to protect LGBTQ+ people from discrimination following a Supreme Court ruling in 2020.

“The conservative legal movement has accomplished two things: libertarian political economy (enforced by judges) and betrayal of social conservatives and traditionalists,” he wrote in a now deleted tweet shared in the Washington Examiner.

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, Vance claimed that the risk of conflict had been worsened by President Joe Biden’s support for trans rights in a now deleted tweet.

However, in his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, Vance wrote that he briefly questioned whether he was gay as a child, which resulted in his grandmother telling him that God would still love him if that were the case.

He said that the incident showed him how “gay people, though unfamiliar, threatened nothing about Mamaw’s being” and concluded there were “more important things for a Christian to worry about”.

What have LGBTQ+ groups said?
LGBTQ+ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign said a Trump-Vance administration could be “abysmal” for LGBTQ+ rights.

“Donald Trump has been a bully for years – and his pick of MAGA clone JD Vance is a reminder that nothing has changed,” Kelley Robinson, HRC president, said in a statement.

GLAAD, a non-profit focused on the media portrayal of LGBTQ+ people, urged news outlets to include Vance’s record on rights issues in their coverage of the election.

“LGBTQ+ Americans are taxpayers, family members, colleagues, classmates, neighbors and friends, and our concerns are the same as any Americans,” said CEO Sarah Kate Ellis.

“Our concerns are not a ‘culture war’ sideshow — they are central to the core issues of this election, and the freedoms all Americans want to preserve and protect.”

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Posted By Melanie Nathan